Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich kids who do things wrong

Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by michael_h on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:54PM (#12782805)

That's 'high IQ'->'higher income'. You are implying 'higher income'->'high IQ', of which there are multitudes of counterexamples.

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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by ubernostrum on Monday October 24, 2016 @07:35PM (#12783875)

This comment should not be downvoted. It's correct in describing what's being asserted. And what's being asserted is the definition of the affirming the consequent.

I know this is HN and we love to point and shout the names of informal fallacies, but maybe learning some formal ones would be useful, too.

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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by blfr on Monday October 24, 2016 @04:57PM (#12782828)

There are always lottery winners. It's not a perfect correlation.

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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by xapata on Monday October 24, 2016 @09:07PM (#12784368)

Ah, the No True Scotsman defense.

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Re:Poor kids who do things right don't do better than rich k... by oicisdumb33 on Monday October 24, 2016 @05:13PM (#12782961)

So it's completely useless then

If you are going to make a blanket statement in your thesis then pull back from its correctness then best not to spout the original as hard truth

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